Shilpi Gupta

Through this blogathan, all of us are trying to find a solution to the age-old problem of violence against women. While we all are trying to focus on a man’s involvement in eradicating gender violence, I feel the first step needs to come from women itself.

I’d like to quote a friend’s experience here who’s working in a renowned company as a senior executive. Ruchi had worked hard to achieve where she is today. A couple of years back, one of her bosses, tried to make sexual advancement towards her. It all started with subtle hints and though she tried to ignore him initially, his behavior became extremely inappropriate. He started passing lewd comments to her over phone.

Naghma Abidi

I am again on the writing table.. after many weeks.. months in fact.. usually it takes a trigger to get me started and this time it was the circumstances of the situation. I have lived my whole life in the city that is most harsh to women, and I am not at all proud of it. It makes me think that again I am put at periphery and not part of the world I exist in. This feeling probably resonates with many who have lived life watching things happen to them... decision made for them rather being the one who is making the decision, always expected to adjust and compromise because that is the ideal. I think that it is not fair to either of sexes. After all why cannot men be sensitive and women brutal - why is that freedom not allowed to either.

Sangeeta Das

It was a very normal day at work. Normal for me, but it would perhaps become the most horrendous day of her life for another woman, my colleague. At first I was clueless as to why she was crying. But after a couple of days of her absence from work, some girls whispered to me, that some one had actually posted her a mail containing a morphed picture of her on a body of a nude.

Arjun Shekhar